From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #780 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, November 18 2008 Volume 16 : Number 780 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fuckitall, But I Think I've Just Come Across The Most Beautiful Phrase In The English Language ["Nectar At Any ] Re: Fuckitall, But I Think I've Just Come Across The Most Beautiful Phrase In The English Language ["kevin stud] ASS on FIRE ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more [] Nobody Gives You A Chance For A Dollar In This Old Town [] Re: Nobody Gives You A Chance For A Dollar In This Old Town ["kevin study] Re: Gotta Let this Hen Out ["C. Huff" ] RE: Robyn in Chycago ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: long-past unreap ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: long-past unreap ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: reap [James Dignan ] Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more [] Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: Nobody Gives You A Chance For A Dollar In This Old Town [] Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more [] Exercises in Style ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Exercises in Style ["kevin studyvin" ] 11/22 - NYC show ["m swedene" ] Re: 11/22 - NYC show [2fs ] Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more [] Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more [] Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more [] pretty on the inside ["(0% rh)" ] Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more [] RE: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:35:21 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Fuckitall, But I Think I've Just Come Across The Most Beautiful Phrase In The English Language viz. "70-foot-high Spam oven" (from ). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:50:19 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Fuckitall, But I Think I've Just Come Across The Most Beautiful Phrase In The English Language Having spent the weekend reading Elizabeth Bishop (and dealing with a virus of probably extraterrestrial origin), I'd propose "And love's the burning boy." On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > viz. "70-foot-high Spam oven" (from ). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:53:39 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: ASS on FIRE i love it, too. but i don't think it's even *robyn's* best live album. that would be *Where Are The Prawns?*. from : >>In fairness, Hen Out! isn't strictly a live recording. "The drums and the guitar and nearly all the vocals are live," Robyn says. "Andy repaired a bit of bass, and Roger repaired bits of keyboard. I didn't repair any of the guitar solos or any of the rhythm guitar. Andy and Roger didn't really make any mistakes, to speak of. I think they were just a bit more particular about their parts than I was. And Morris couldn't change anything because drums get all over the place. "We were firing on eight cylinders out of six. We had to dry-clean our shoes afterward -- the closest I ever got to Rock 'n' Roll."<< oh, that was a reference to the old version 1 tag parameters, in which "primus" was one of the supported genres. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:09:55 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more > Alphabetical-by-artist is the only thing keeping me functional. > > . Similar problem with metric tons of books, which are all alphabetical by author (except for things like The Mammoth Book Of Zombies, which of course is under M). I can find find anything I'm looking for with no problem, but it drives (my/the) wife nuts. She wants to know why can't I at least separate fiction from non, but I cleverly come back with things that don't automatically fall into either category like say Borges' The Book Of Imaginary Beings. It's a problem. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:05:06 -0600 From: Subject: Nobody Gives You A Chance For A Dollar In This Old Town So Robyn did have a pretty good set of shows at the Old Town School on Saturday night. (I managed to score tickets from some Craigslisters.) First set was tighter, more on point. The second set was looser and a bit more spontaneous. But Robyn wasn't quite on form, I found. I dunno-- he seemed a bit nervous to me. He dropped and hit a ton of sour notes in several pieces, particularly in "Nocturne" and "Crystal Branches". The treatment of "Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl" was top shelf, and the versions of "Trams", "Raymond Chandler Evening", "I Used To Say I Love You", and "I Often Dream of Trains". I wasn't keen on "That's Fantastic Mother Church". It seemed a little dated and flat. I wonder if Robyn would write that kind of tune today. Other than that, I don't have a lot of critical appraisal. I saw the show and dug it a lot. The weather was perfect (I Often Dream Of Trains is a superb late autumn record), and the foul weather was excellent. I saw DeRo at the show, surrounded by a throng. His review (http://blogs.suntimes.com/derogatis/2008/11/robyn_hitchcock_dreams_of_t rai.html) doesn't quite bear out the attention (as always, he misses the point). Hope everyone is well. Or Well-sh. - -Doc This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:21:52 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Huh. Might just be because I've been on a Bawb kick but this header struck me as particularly Dylanesque (or has Ferry copyrighted that now?): *http://tinyurl.com/5qz9uj* We are also amused by an NYT profile of Phil Gramm wherein he confidently asserts that deregulation had nothing whatever to do with a state of affairs which has practically everybody on the face of the earth nervously making sure they know where the nearest soup kitchen is. He has pointed a finger at, among others, "predatory borrowers": *http://tinyurl.com/5uom2o* Happy Monday. np: His Bobness, TIme Out Of Mind ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:25:59 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Nobody Gives You A Chance For A Dollar In This Old Town > I saw DeRo at the show, surrounded by a throng. His review > (http://blogs.suntimes.com/derogatis/2008/11/robyn_hitchcock_dreams_of_t > rai.html) doesn't quite bear out the attention (as always, he misses the > point). > I liked the commenter who describes RobHitch as "rather large and kinda scary." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:33:17 -0800 (PST) From: "C. Huff" Subject: Re: Gotta Let this Hen Out >>Spoiler Alert: In the new version of "This Could Be the Day", Greedo shoots first. haha I think I know what that means but I will reserve judgment until after Wed... picturing Tim Keegan dressed up like Chewbacca... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:53:35 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Robyn in Chycago Michael, How was the show? I was thinking about a road trip to Chicago, but I had too much work to do around the house. Michael B. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sweeney Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 1:02 PM To: fegs Subject: Robyn in Chycago ...We're going to the Saturday late (10 PM) show at the Old Town School...any other Fegs headin' in (or out...or wherver) then? Michael "Not feeling too well, but no way I would miss IODOT live..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_1 12008 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:06:30 -0500 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more 2008/11/17 2fs : > > FWIW, I still haven't decided how to best handle songs that have one of > those "feat. so-and-so" credits. In theory, ID3v2 handles arbitrary tags. In practice, unless you wrote the client software, your software will ignore them. As with any attempt to tag arbitrary systems, you can either have complete coverage, or you can have consistent coverage. You can't have both. Stewart - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:08:30 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: An RH treat for you, fresh from the oven! But first I need your help On 11/16/08, Cor Baby, That's Really Free wrote: > > That would be the obvious choice, but I worry that a matrix might make it > sounds twice as flawed... both boomy/"swooshy" *and* a bit distorted at the > top. > Well, right - if *I* did it it surely would! That's why I specified "someone with talent"...of course it could be that my guess is wrong, and no amount of talent or genius audio fuckwithery could yoke the twain of those recordings into a hearty, hale whole... ("Ya, wise guy - what, you yokin' my twain?") I have someone with a lot of experience listening to them right now > (surprisingly, only one person responded, but it was a good one) and he's > going to let me know what he thinks. > > Mike > > At 11/16/08 3:09 PM -0600, 2fs wrote: > > On 11/13/08,* Cor Baby, That's Really Free* wrote: > > > > Source 1: Nice sound, present, a liiiiiiittle bit boomy, vocals a teensy > bit muddy during spoken passages because that's how the room sounded. The > only problem is, to my ears it sounds a tiny bit gated and swooshy in some > parts, like some noise reduction may have been applied - but none was! No > processing at all was done on either source. > > Source 2: Crisp sound, clear but a bit thin-sounding & trebly, and the mic > overloaded and added a tiny bit ceiling of unfortunate crunch to the very > loudest passages and a couple of the bassiest moments. > > > It almost sounds as if someone with talent in this area could create a > good-sounding recording by blending these two... > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com > > > > -- > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Life In A Mikeycosm! > Look, ma, I'm a video star: http://www.youtube.com/GuitaristInProgress > For the love of blog, Montressor! : http://mike20.livejournal.com > What is there to do in a Mikeycosm? http://www.mikeycosm.org/events.html > > AIM , MSN, Yahoo Messenger: HayPasadoUnAngel > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:48:22 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: long-past unreap Today is Gene Clark's birthday - my friend Bradley has a nice tribute at his band's website: < http://forasmanyaswill.blogspot.com/2008/11/in-misty-morning.html>. And many of us here would, I think, really enjoy that band's music: The Bye Bye Blackbirds. (Rex in particular, I think, for some reason...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:59:25 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: long-past unreap Strangeness abounds!!! I grabbed No Other from my cd shelf this morning and I'm listening to it at work for the second time today when Jeff's e-mail popped up! Michael B. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of 2fs Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 3:48 PM To: Pigworkers Local 47 Subject: long-past unreap Today is Gene Clark's birthday - my friend Bradley has a nice tribute at his band's website: < http://forasmanyaswill.blogspot.com/2008/11/in-misty-morning.html>. And many of us here would, I think, really enjoy that band's music: The Bye Bye Blackbirds. (Rex in particular, I think, for some reason...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:13:30 -0500 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: long-past unreap 2008/11/17 2fs : > my friend Bradley ... who must avoid Devon at all costs! Stewart - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:13:07 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: long-past unreap > Strangeness abounds!!! I grabbed No Other from my cd shelf this morning > and I'm listening to it at work for the second time today when Jeff's e-mail > popped up! No Other = one of the most gorgeous records ever. Hollywood Cowboy Baroque C/S! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:42:01 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: reap >Wasn't it Blakey who said "I 'ate you, Butler!"...? > >Reg *was* Butler IIRC... > >(and he looked like my Dad. My Uncle Bob looked Like Harry Secombe too...) It was indeed - I added that because it was the best known catchphrase of the show and was referring to Varney's character. Ironically, Stephen Lewis, who played Inspector Blake (and looked considerably older than the other main characters) is 20 years younger than Varney, and is just about the only one of the cast still alive. Reg Varney was already in his 50s when he played Stan Butler (the character was supposedly in his mid 30s). Sadly, Bob Grant, who played conductor Jack Harper committed suicide a few years back, and of the other regulars only Anna Karen (who played Reg's sister Olive) is still alive. James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:57:53 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more > Plus, I'd never know where to find anything. Did I decide that that track > with the country two-step beat, pedal steel guitar, crazy phased modal > guitar solo, and sitar-led bridge was "country-rock" or "psychedelic"? Ah, but, the beauty of digital classification by folder is...the alias. See, it can go in *both.* - --Q ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:44:06 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap Pete Newell, the Richard Thompson of basketball http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/17/SPVFBT56M.DTL&tsp=1 "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:31:01 -0600 From: Subject: RE: Nobody Gives You A Chance For A Dollar In This Old Town Yeah, he's not off the mark. I forget just how damn tall Robyn really is. The guy next to me is eating smelly Chinese food from Panda Express. If Robyn were here, he'd put a stop to that. ________________________________ From: kevin studyvin [mailto:kstudyvin@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 12:26 PM To: Doxtator, E. H. Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: Nobody Gives You A Chance For A Dollar In This Old Town I saw DeRo at the show, surrounded by a throng. His review (http://blogs.suntimes.com/derogatis/2008/11/robyn_hitchcock_dreams_of_t rai.html ) doesn't quite bear out the attention (as always, he misses the point). I liked the commenter who describes RobHitch as "rather large and kinda scary." This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:01:44 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: long-past unreap On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM, 2fs wrote: > Today is Gene Clark's birthday - my friend Bradley has a nice tribute at > his > band's website: < > http://forasmanyaswill.blogspot.com/2008/11/in-misty-morning.html>. > > And many of us here would, I think, really enjoy that band's music: The Bye > Bye Blackbirds. (Rex in particular, I think, for some reason...) Why yes, quite nice, I must agree. I may steal their MySpace "sounds like" roster... gets to the point rather nicely. Of course I do enjoy the music of Mr. Clark. Interestingly (or more likely not), in my own band, the bassist, who hasn't heard as much solo Clark as I have, tends to write songs that remind me strongly of Gene's, far more than any of my own do. Which is cool, because then I get to play McGuinn on the guitar and harmony side. The wife's a fan, too, and often sings rather a nice "Feel a Whole Lot Better" when she picks up my 12-string. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:23:02 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more > Chris, Jeff: > > > > Me, I'm just the opposite: I can *only* keep my music files stored > > alphabetically. Being the indecisive fuck that I am, if I tried to > organize > > them by genre or theme, I would be constantly changing my mind and > > rearranging things, and basically never leave the house. > > Alphabetical-by-artist is the only thing keeping me functional. > > > Plus, I'd never know where to find anything. Did I decide that that track > with the country two-step beat, pedal steel guitar, crazy phased modal > guitar solo, and sitar-led bridge was "country-rock" or "psychedelic"? I'm with you guys. Partially it started as a survival technique (not a technique to insure *my* survival but the music's): before I really figured out what I was doing and got the Terrabyte Drive-- and still whenever I back up, although it's not as piecemeal-- I had to copy files from drive to drive OVER and OVER again, from one slow machine to another, in tiny tiny increments. The bane of all banes in this process was the fucking "Compilations" on whose existence iTunes insists, and into which innumerable whackos equally insist on casting a random half of ALL MUSIC EVAR, including as often as not some but not all discs in a give box set. To that end, I periodically "select" my whole iTunes library, "get info", and check the box beside the "No" option on "Part of a compilation". It's the only way my folders end up showing me what the hell I actually have. And the "genre" tag must surely be some cruel joke just to piss me, Jeffrey, and, like, any other reasonable human being, off, lots. > > (FWIW, I still haven't decided how to best handle songs that have one of > those "feat. so-and-so" credits. Logically, that should go with the > artist...but if it's an mp3, my mp3 database (still!) doesn't have multiple > fields for artist, so either there's a new artist created (Mark E. Smith > ft. > Your Granny on Bongos), or I append "ft. Your Granny on Bongos" in square > brackets after the song title (same place I put things like "alt. mix," > "demo," and the like). Ideally, there'd be a field for info like "alt. mix" > etc. that I could force to show up in relevant displays of the track > info... Well, the recent differentiation between the "Album Artist" and "Artist" fields in iTunes is helping with this at last, but it's a slow process, and it took me a while to figure out that the other application I used to rip my erstwhile collection classes the two fields in the opposite fashion to iTunes. But that's another story. What I really wanted to say was that I have an aversion to the "ft." convention, because (A) "ft." seems to me to be taken as the abbreviation of "feet", and (B) it seems to me to have been at least initially rather specific to the modern charts and the "guest rapper on the R&B diva's single or vice versa" phenomenon. It just doesn't feel right to me when it's retrofitted to "The Band featuring Ronnie Hawkins", even though that makes perfect sense. I just prefer "with" or "and". Or a good old fashioned ampersand. - -Rex Broome, bouzouki and vocals, The Good Old Fashioned Ampersands ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:32:47 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Exercises in Style Hey if you guys are looking for a really fun book to read, you ought to track down Matt Madden's "99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style" -- a cartoon art version of Raymond Queneau's book "Exercises in Style". You can see some samples from it at Madden's web site exercisesinstyle.com Cheers J - -- If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:46:21 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Exercises in Style That does look like fun - there's a real Herge flavor to a lot of those pages. Thanx for the tip. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Hey if you guys are looking for a really fun book to read, you ought > to track down Matt Madden's "99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in > Style" -- a cartoon art version of Raymond Queneau's book "Exercises > in Style". You can see some samples from it at Madden's web site > exercisesinstyle.com > > Cheers > J > > -- > If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the > essential words. -- Josi Saramago > http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:08:52 -0500 From: "m swedene" Subject: 11/22 - NYC show Since my friend left me and went to find his true love in Perth Australia, I find myself with an extra ticket to Saturday (11/22) show in NYC. I am going to ask Ric Ocasek (if I see him at work tomorrow). I bet he says no. So does anyone need a ticket? anyone on the fence and this might push them over? Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:57:03 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: 11/22 - NYC show On 11/17/08, m swedene wrote: > > Since my friend left me and went to find his true love in Perth Australia, > I > find myself with an extra ticket to Saturday (11/22) show in NYC. > I am going to ask Ric Ocasek (if I see him at work tomorrow). I bet he > says > no. This sounds like some sort of warped folk song... I like the idea of incorporating Ric Ocasek into a folk song, if nothing else. Trouble is, nothing rhymes with "Ocasek" except "basic," and there's no way not to make that rhyme comical. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:59:46 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more The Great Quail wrote: > > Ah, but, the beauty of digital classification by folder is...the alias. > See, it can go in *both.* Yeah, but when you have to move your collection (and that will be a when, not if) you're going to have to be really careful that your backup system understands symlinks properly, or you're going to end up with multiple copies. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:46:58 -0600 (CST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Yeah, but when you have to move your collection (and that will be a > when, not if) you're going to have to be really careful that your backup > system understands symlinks properly, or you're going to end up with > multiple copies. Well that's why god made rsync. But this is surely a good idea for Things That Will Prevent Me Ever Getting My PhD. I like the big alphabetic-by-artist tree but could also then build a number of huge systems of trees including a genre tree like the Quail's, a directory list containing a subdirectory for each musician playing on any track with sub-subdirectories for the intrument played containing the track with that musician/instrument combination, and even just an instrument tree with each instrument represented by a directory containing the tracks that use the instrument (with, prehaps, subdirectories for featured, backing, or accented appearance). You could just go on and on. Indeed, could we not construct just such an online database? I give it eight years. If there's still an internet, this database will exist. J. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:28:53 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Capuchin wrote: > > Indeed, could we not construct just such an online database? I give it > eight years. If there's still an internet, this database will exist. Would it have to cross-reference every genre to which any potential user might perceive any given artist to belong? Because I'm adding some live Bangles tapes to my library right now, and if you asked me, I'd have to classify them as "Experimental". - -Rex, being prevented from ever getting his Ph.D. by more depressingly quotidian concerns like not being in school, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:51:02 -0500 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: pretty on the inside (and there's fish!): http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/xrays.html bay area folks even get an exhibit at the SF MOMA: http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/332 as ever, lauren p.s. on a (rare) RH-note: i've been dragging lately, so i'm trading in the NYC show for the philadelphia show. i've kind of mixed feelings on my call - robyn always rocks the NYC (which (in my mind) includes maxwell's), and i'm not too crazy about World Cafe Live as a venue - hopefully robyn and the boys will manage to defeat the venue's "for mature audiences only" atmosphere. at any rate, hope to see some phillyFegs there (hi jeanne!), and NYC fegs: another time, another place (hi jeremy!) - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:57:10 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more On the Bangles classification I would concur with 'experimental' as long as it's applied the 'Everything' period. The early stuff is dead centre Paisley Underground. >ducks< c* On 18/11/2008, Rex wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Capuchin wrote: > > > > > Indeed, could we not construct just such an online database? I give it > > eight years. If there's still an internet, this database will exist. > > > Would it have to cross-reference every genre to which any potential user > might perceive any given artist to belong? Because I'm adding some live > Bangles tapes to my library right now, and if you asked me, I'd have to > classify them as "Experimental". > > -Rex, being prevented from ever getting his Ph.D. by more depressingly > quotidian concerns like not being in school, etc. > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:38:41 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more I would concur that the Bangles eponymous 1982 ep and 1984's "All Over The Place" are certainly Paisley Underground, beyond that it get's pretty dicey on the second album as far as labeling it PU and 1988's "Everything" is certainly PU of a different sort. 2000's "Doll House" is a return to form though. Michael B. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of craigie* Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:57 AM To: Rex Cc: Capuchin; Fegmaniax! Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and having "seen behind" the Wizard Of Oz' "curtain" (if you catch my meaning), I can guaran-fuckin'-tee y'all that he is all he's been cracked up to be...and so much more On the Bangles classification I would concur with 'experimental' as long as it's applied the 'Everything' period. The early stuff is dead centre Paisley Underground. >ducks< c* On 18/11/2008, Rex wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Capuchin wrote: > > > > > Indeed, could we not construct just such an online database? I give > > it eight years. If there's still an internet, this database will exist. > > > Would it have to cross-reference every genre to which any potential > user might perceive any given artist to belong? Because I'm adding > some live Bangles tapes to my library right now, and if you asked me, > I'd have to classify them as "Experimental". > > -Rex, being prevented from ever getting his Ph.D. by more depressingly > quotidian concerns like not being in school, etc. > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #780 ********************************